![]() Herbert was a member of the Canterbury Association from 20 March 1848. Herbert returned to office again as Secretary at War in 1859, by which time the post had been combined with the office of Secretary of State for War. ![]() Herbert briefly held office in the first Lord Palmerston ministry in 1855 but resigned when the government agreed to an enquiry into the conduct of the government in the Crimean War. In 1852 he was appointed as Secretary at War in the coalition government of Lord Aberdeen from 1852 to 1854, being responsible for the War Office during the Crimean War. Herbert stayed loyal to Peel and was considered to be a Peelite or a Liberal Conservative. Under Robert Peel he held minor offices, and in 1845 was included in the cabinet as Secretary at War. Herbert entered the House of Commons as Conservative Member of Parliament for a division of Wiltshire in 1832. Educated at Harrow and Oriel College, Oxford, he made a reputation at the Oxford Union as a speaker. Woronzow Road in St John's Wood, London, is named after the family. He was the younger son of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke, his mother being the Russian noblewoman Countess Catherine Woronzow (or Vorontsov), daughter of the Russian ambassador to St James's, Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov. ![]() ![]() Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, PC (16 September 1810 – 2 August 1861) was a British statesman and a close ally and confidant of Florence Nightingale. ![]()
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